One year after giant pandas graduated from endangered to “vulnerable,” a welcome designation after 28 years, Chinese scientists have sobering news: The animal’s natural habitat in China is in serious danger.

The National Park Service is giving more than $61,000 for the development of a memorial honoring the victims and survivors of the 2011 shooting that left six dead and 13 injured, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva said Friday the grant will be used for the January 8th Memorial in downtown’s El Presidio Park.

TOWNSEND — It still takes imagination to envision sitting among the suit-and-dress crowd listening to the orchestra on a Saturday night at the Appalachia Club House in the Elkmont Historic District of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal will measure Mount Everest afresh to settle a controversy over height of the world’s tallest peak, especially after some estimates suggested it became a little shorter in the wake of an earthquake two years ago, officials said on Friday.

The Liberian government designated a new national park in August 2017 that will protect an important population of Critically Endangered western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), as well as several other species of large mammals.